Period has become increasingly challenging at the box office, not to mention in recent times marquees have been inundated with World War II fare, particularly films starring Brad Pitt. But when director Christopher Nolan embraces the historical subject, its a different story, and Warner Bros is celebrating a win for its older-male-skewing Dunkirk this weekend with $50.5 million  a figure that not only beat tracking, but the total $40M stateside ticket sales of Pitts November WWII bomb Allied.

I think another WW I epic story which ought to be put to the screen is the first battle in the war for the Americans....the Battle of Cantigny. The second battle at Mame (June 1918) would also be an epic story.

Saw Dunkirk last night. I would NOT recommend it. Perhaps it was the fault of the theatre. It was so loud that it was painful. Plus the dialogue (what little there was) was obscured by gunfire, explosions, rushing sea water, etc. It was hard to follow. Plus, for whatever reason, the filmmakers never identified the enemy (and hardly anybody else). When they covered Churchill’s stirring address at the end, they glossed over it.

This retreat was a turning point in WWII and deserved a more comprehensive coverage. Certainly anybody seeing this movie who isn’t British would hardly understand what happened. I say “who isn’t British” because the British seem to take better care of their history than others and also because they lost so many men.

I did get the message from the film — 400,000 awaiting evacuation on the beach; 30,000 made it to Dover. War is Hell.

We saw Dunkirk this weekend. I thought it was good, but had difficulty following when the action went from day to night and back to day and then again night. The stories intertwined were interesting. Dunkirk was an event like no other. I am glad to see a resurgence of movies about World War 2. It was a time when men were men and there was an important job to be done......and they put Good and Right ahead of their personal safety. The respect I have for those who fought in WW2 is overwhelming. As is the respect I have for those serving now.

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posted on 07/24/2017 6:33:56 AM PDT
by originalbuckeye
("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell service T)

“Plus the dialogue (what little there was) was obscured by gunfire, explosions, rushing sea water, etc. It was hard to follow”

I agree, but “the dialogue (what little there was).....was hard to follow” because they mumbled their lines and the volume of their dialog was WAY to LOW. It was mostly not understandable.

“I did get the message from the film  400,000 awaiting evacuation on the beach; 30,000 made it to Dover.”

“The War Office made the decision to evacuate British forces on 25 May. In the nine days from 27 May4 June, 338,226 men escaped, including 139,997 French, Polish, and Belgian troops, together with a small number of Dutch soldiers, aboard 861 vessels (of which 243 were sunk during the operation). The historian Basil Liddell Hart says British Fighter Command lost 106 aircraft dogfighting over Dunkirk, and the Luftwaffe lost about 135, some of which were shot down by the French Navy and the Royal Navy, but MacDonald says the British lost 177 aircraft and the Germans lost 240”

“between 30,000 and 40,000 more were left behind and forced to surrender to the Germans”

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posted on 07/24/2017 7:01:53 AM PDT
by faucetman
(Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)

I pulled out my old DVD copy of DUNKIRK from the 1950s last night. It has women, French, Englishmen, Richard Attenborough and John Mills in it. Sorry, no minorities.
You can hear them talk! The sound effects do not swamp the movie. There is actually a story line!

I noticed a years ago that modern movies are swamped by LOUD sound effects and LOUD music, and I can’t hear the dialog. It is so bad I have to use the Closed Captions. Unfortunately, the white captioning does not show up well against lighter scenes and they do not keep the captions on screen long enough to read it.

Nolan should produce & make a film about either the George Washington, Revolutionary War, victory battle at Trenton & Princeton, NJ or, the victory battle of “The CowPens”, South Carolina, in January, 1781, led by backwoods, French/Indian war, General, Daniel Morgan, under the great leadership of Washington’s favorite General, Nathanial Greene. This battle at CowPens, coupled with the successful “holding” Greene battle at Guilford Court House, North Carolina led by Greene, leader/commander of the Revolutionary War, Southern Department. In the bleakest days of the Revolutionary War, these three great American leaders rose to the occasion with stunning victories against the then strongest army in the entire world, the British Redcoats!!!

I doubt that many young Americans have any idea of these key battles that helped establish the great American Republic. The Democrat Party scum & vermin, their hate America media and the academic low life, liberal, scum would never allow our kids to learn who and how our country reached freedom and liberty for all!!! SHAME...SAD!!!

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